Presidential campaigns continue on much too long

January 9, 2008|Olaf A. Hage, Boca Raton,, Olaf A. Hage, Boca Raton

After reading Monday's letter, "Limit campaigns," I have to congratulate the author because she has it right.

Election campaigns should be limited to three months or a maximum of six months. Furthermore, any candidate, Democrat or Republican, who is holding a federal elected office (senator/representative) should have to resign before he or she can run for not only the presidency but also any federal elected office. Like the letter writer states, "who is running the country" while these candidates are running around the country being paid by the public? It seems like the present election cycle has been going on since the day after President Bush was re-elected in 2004.

The combination of all the media outlets, the pundits and the politicians themselves have flooded us with their rhetoric for too long now. Let's get some sanity into this election process. The probability that any change will take place is practically nil because it is the politicians themselves who will have to make the changes in the laws. Shame on them. It appears that all they are thinking about is themselves and not serving the people of the United States as they have been elected to do.